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On October 14, 1969 in Celtic History

The, 50 pence decimal coin was first issued, replacing the ten shilling note.

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    calendar 1939

    German submarine sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney, with the loss of, 810 lives.

    October 14, 1939

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    calendar 1932

    Strikes, marches and protests are held in Belfast against low unemployment payments, temporarily uniting Catholic and Protestant unemployed

    October 14, 1932

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    calendar 1920

    Tipperary IRA man, Sean Treacy, is killed in a gun battle in Talbot Street, Dublin

    October 14, 1920

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    calendar 1882

    Eamon de Valera, nationalist campaigner, Fianna Fáil leader, Taoiseach and president of Ireland, is born in Brooklyn, NY of a Spanish father and an Irish mother

    October 14, 1882

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    calendar 1881

    Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, nearly, 20 boats and, 129 men (1 in, 3 of the towns male population) lost their lives in a storm.

    October 14, 1881

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    calendar 1880

    Nationalist and Gaelic League activist, Mary Ellen Spring-Rice is born

    October 14, 1880

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    calendar 1842

    First issue of The Nation published

    October 14, 1842

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    calendar 1814

    Birth of author and patriot, Thomas Osborne Davis in Mallow, Co. Cork

    October 14, 1814

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    calendar 1791

    Wolfe Tone visits Belfast for the first time

    October 14, 1791

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    calendar 1788

    First steamboat tested on Dalswinton Loch by Patrick Miller and William Symington.

    October 14, 1788

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    calendar 1783

    Edmond Sexton Pery is unanimously re-elected as Speaker of the Irish parliament

    October 14, 1783

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    calendar 1767

    George Townshend, 4th Viscount Townshend, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

    October 14, 1767